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Anna Freud was a British psychoanalyst of Austrian Jewish descent. She was born in Vienna, the sixth and youngest child of Sigmund Freud and Martha Bernays. She followed the path of her father and contributed to the field of psychoanalysis. Alongside Hermine Hug-Hellmuth and Melanie Klein, she may be considered the founder of psychoanalytic child psychology.
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culture · Austrian–British psychoanalyst (1895–1982) · psychoanalyst · non-fiction writer · writer · also Anna Freud, Freud
Born 3 December 1895 · Died 9 October 1982 · Q78485
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“In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.”
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Psychology Today: Famous Last Words: My Analysis With Anna Freud
Ranked Anna Freud as the 99th-most cited psychologist of the 20th century
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Freud was honoured with a blue plaque, by English Heritage, at 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead in London, her home between 1938 and 1982
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Her London home of forty years was transformed, according to her wishes, into the Freud Museum, dedicated to the memory of her father
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Died 1982-10-09.
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“Jokes and their Relation to the Cognitive Unconscious”
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Burlingham's daughter Mabbie arrived in London from her New York home seeking further analysis with Anna, notwithstanding the latter's advice to continue in analysis with her New York analyst
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“The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm”
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Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1967).
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And in 1973 she was made an Honorary President of the International Psychoanalytic Association
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As a centre for therapy, training and research work
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Vienna (1950).
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Along with her American colleagues Ruth Selke Eissler, Heinz Hartmann, and Ernst Kriss, she helped found the journal The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, and served on its editorial board
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There finally emerged a compromise agreement which established parallel training courses, providing options to satisfy the concerns of the rival groups that had formed which by then, in addition to the followers of Freud
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Following the Anschluss, in which Nazi Germany occupied Austria, Anna was taken to Gestapo headquarters in Vienna for questioning on the activities of the International Psychoanalytical Association
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With the advent of the Nazi regime in Austria, she resumed her psychoanalytic practice and her pioneering work in child psychoanalysis in London, establishing the Hampstead Child Therapy Course and Clinic in 1952 (later
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Freud and Burlingham launched a new project, establishing a nursery for children under the age of two
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“Analysis Terminable and Interminable”
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The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence, a classic monograph on ego psychology and defense mechanisms, Anna Freud drew on her own clinical experience, but relied on her father's writings as the principal and authoritative
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Became director of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Training Institute and the following year she published her influential study of the "ways and means by which the ego wards off depression, displeasure and anxiety", The
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“New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis”
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“But [William] Glen [a distinguished geologist and historian of science at the United States Geological Survey in Menlo Park, CA...] reminded me of the famous statement by Freud that I have often quoted in these essays: The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.”
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Spent a year at Berggasse 19, where the Freuds and Burlinghams had apartments, staying with the Burlinghams
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Anna and Dorothy bought a cottage together
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Anna became, in effect, the children's step-parent
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Anna persuaded the parties concerned that a permanent move to Vienna was in Ernst's best interests, not least because he could resume analysis with her on a more regular basis
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In her first book, An Introduction to the Technique of Child Analysis, clashed with those of Melanie Klein, who "was departing from the developmental schedule that Freud, and his analyst daughter, found most plausible"
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Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham set up a new school in collaboration with a family friend, Eva Rosenfeld, who ran a foster care home in the Hietzing district of Vienna
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Burlingham, heiress to the Tiffany luxury jewellery retailer, had arrived in Vienna from New York with her four children
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“Gesammelte Schriften, Volume 6”
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“The Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex”
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Began her own psychoanalytical practice with children and by 1925 she was teaching at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Training Institute on the technique of child analysis, her approach to which she set out in her first bo
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For which he would need numerous operations and the long-term nursing assistance that Anna provided
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Anna Freud presented her paper "Beating Fantasies and Daydreams" to the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society and became a member of the society
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Began a series of consultations and discussions that continued both in Vienna and in visits Anna made to Salome's home in Germany
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Passed her teaching examination and began work as a teaching apprentice at her old school, the Cottage Lyceum
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“...we must begin to love in order not to fall ill.”
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Took an extended vacation over the winter months in Italy
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“Three Essays On The Theory Of Sexuality”
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“Anna has become downright beautiful through naughtiness.”
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Born 1895-12-03.
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